The Gilded Age
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 1904
Category : City and town life
ISBN :
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 1904
Category : City and town life
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 1975
Category :
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Author : Conference on Research in Income and Wealth
Publisher : Princeton : University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
"Contains most of the papers presented at the joint sessions of the Economic History Association and the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth held in Williamstown, Massacusetss, in September 1957." Includes bibliographical references.
Author : Stanley L. Engerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521553070
This three volume work offers a comprehensive survey of the history of economic activity and economic change in the United States, and in those regions whose economies have at certain times been closely allied to that of the US.
Author : Robert J. Gordon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400888956
How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, The Rise and Fall of American Growth challenges the view that economic growth will continue unabated, and demonstrates that the life-altering scale of innovations between 1870 and 1970 cannot be repeated. Gordon contends that the nation's productivity growth will be further held back by the headwinds of rising inequality, stagnating education, an aging population, and the rising debt of college students and the federal government, and that we must find new solutions. A critical voice in the most pressing debates of our time, The Rise and Fall of American Growth is at once a tribute to a century of radical change and a harbinger of tougher times to come.
Author : Harry Mortimer Douty
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Wages
ISBN :
Paper on historical wages trends and the cost of living in the 19th century USA. Bibliography and statistical tables.
Author : Robert E. Gallman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022663311X
When we think about history, we often think about people, events, ideas, and revolutions, but what about the numbers? What do the data tell us about what was, what is, and how things changed over time? Economist Robert E. Gallman (1926–98) gathered extensive data on US capital stock and created a legacy that has, until now, been difficult for researchers to access and appraise in its entirety. Gallman measured American capital stock from a range of perspectives, viewing it as the accumulation of income saved and invested, and as an input into the production process. He used the level and change in the capital stock as proxy measures for long-run economic performance. Analyzing data in this way from the end of the US colonial period to the turn of the twentieth century, Gallman placed our knowledge of the long nineteenth century—the period during which the United States began to experience per capita income growth and became a global economic leader—on a strong empirical foundation. Gallman’s research was painstaking and his analysis meticulous, but he did not publish the material backing to his findings in his lifetime. Here Paul W. Rhode completes this project, giving permanence to a great economist’s insights and craftsmanship. Gallman’s data speak to the role of capital in the economy, which lies at the heart of many of the most pressing issues today.
Author : Moses Abramovitz
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Claudia Goldin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226301354
Offering new research on strategic factors in the development of the nineteenth century American economy—labor, capital, and political structure—the contributors to this volume employ a methodology innovated by Robert W. Fogel, one of the leading pioneers of the "new economic history." Fogel's work is distinguished by the application of economic theory and large-scale quantitative evidence to long-standing historical questions. These sixteen essays reveal, by example, the continuing vitality of Fogel's approach. The authors use an astonishing variety of data, including genealogies, the U.S. federal population census manuscripts, manumission and probate records, firm accounts, farmers' account books, and slave narratives, to address collectively market integration and its impact on the lives of Americans. The evolution of markets in agricultural and manufacturing labor is considered first; that concerning capital and credit follows. The demography of free and slave populations is the subject of the third section, and the final group of papers examines the extra-market institutions of governments and unions.
Author : Leah Platt Boustan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022616389X
This volume honours the contributions Claudia Goldin has made to scholarship and teaching in economic history and labour economics. The chapters address some closely integrated issues: the role of human capital in the long-term development of the American economy, trends in fertility and marriage, and women's participation in economic change.